Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-10
7oundland in regard to the fisheries

ury, in the event that the financial
eNigencies of the country demand
such a course, it was concluded,
should such an eXigency occur, to re-
fer the matter to the decision of the
Attorney General.
The other matter was disposed of
by the appointment of a commission.
consisting of Secretary Bayard, and
Messrs. VIM. ID. Putnam of Maine,
and JAS. B. Angel of Michigan. and
as all three gentlemen are profound
~ versed in the arts and wiles of di-
plomacy, it is believed by many that
their deliberations with the Canadian
commissioners will reach a successful
issue.
The Capital is indebted to Civil
Service Commissioner Oberly for its
latest political sensation, which came
about in this way: The Illinois dem
Ocratic association, as its name i'm
plies, is a political, as well as a semi
social organization, invited the COM
missioner to deliver an address to
them, whereupon that gentleman
wrote a lengthy communication, de-
Ginning the proffered honor, and at
the same time informing the Illinoi-
ans that it is a violation of the civil
service law for Federal employees in
the classified service to belong to such
societies-the offenders being sub
ject to dismissal, fine and imprison-
ment for such uncivIl conduct. There
are about eight such state assOcia-
tions in this city, and as you may be-
Heve, the Oberly manifest fell like a
dynamite bomb in their ranks, pro-
ducing, however, no Immediately ia
tai results. But the Virginia Asso-
citation is an exception, and defes
Commissioner Oberly to do his worst,
heaping multiplied maledictions upon
his devoted head, and among other
dreadful things, charging him with
political treachery of the deepest dye.
Washington is so rapidly growing
in popular favor in that respect that
at no distant day it may be known as
the City of Conventions. The latest
body to meet here was the Interna-
tional Medical congress, and the next
will be the American section Of the
Evangelical Alliance, composed of
1900 delegates and constituting one
of the most important and influential
religious organizations in the world.
The Alliance will meet early in De-
cember next, and it is hoped will be
an occasion of spiritual growth and
blessing and of pleasant social inter-
course. In a few weeks $4,000 pro-
grammes of the meeting will be print
ed and distributed throughout the
United States.
That the bond call for fourteen
millions of four and four and a half
per cents last week, was issued none
too soon for the financial welfare of
the country, is evidenced by the rap
id reaction and restored confidence in
monetary circles that is in such strik-
ing contrast with the panicky and I'M
certain feelings so generally preva-
lent in the business world, before the
tension was relaxed by the derRter
resort of the treasury department,
move that certainly was wise in its
conception and full worthy of practi-
cal craftsmanship, especially when it
is remembered that the trouble is di-
rectly traceable to that most difficult
and vexatious of the problems of the
time, the treasury surplus, which like
an insatiate monster, continues to
mercilessly swallow the hard earnings
of the people without any benefit re-
sulting to them.
A member of the English civil SER
vice commission is visiting the capt.
tai in a semi-oficial capacity, his pur-
pose being to compare the two sys-
TENS and ascertain whether, in his
opinion, the British plan is not more
perfect than ours, an inevitable con-
clusion on his part or anybody else's,
since the English civil service system
is Of long-standing, while that of the
United States may be considered in
an experimental state, with much adj
verse popular sentiment to overcome
before it can be regarded as success
full or permanently established.
The fatal illness of the Hon. +. B.
Washburne, ex-Minister to France,
recalls his career in the National
House of Representatives, where he
preceded Judge Kelley of Pennsylva-
MIA, as Father of the House," in
which capacity he administered the
oath of Office to the new speaker, four
times-three times TO Schuyler Col
fax, and once to James @. Blaine.
hear of an interesting political
rumor, which if true, (and / have ev-
cry reason to believe that it is) will
tend to complicate senatorial legisla-
ton and shock senatorial dignity next
winter. Senator Riddleberger, who
believes that his republican colleagues
have purposely and persistently slight
ed him, announces that he proposes
to get even and make his influence
felt by trying the senate whenever he
feels disposed-the Virginia senator
holding the balance Of power in that